Total population | |
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Total population of Uruguayan born and ancestry 20,000 (2017) [1] [2] Residents of France born in Uruguay 20,000 Portuguese-born [3] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Ajaccio, [4] Aquitaine, Brittany, Bordeaux, [4] [5] Cebazat (Clermont-Ferrand), [4] Centre-Val de Loire, Corsica, [6] Dax, [4] Île-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Lille, [4] Limousin, Lower Normandy, Lyon, [4] [7] Marseille, [4] [8] Midi-Pyrénées, Montpellier, [4] Nice, [4] Northeastern France, Orléans, [4] Paris, [4] [9] [10] Pau, [4] Pays de la Loire, Poitou-Charentes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, [1] Roubaix, Rouen, [4] Strasbourg, [4] [7] Toulouse, [4] [7] Tours. [4] | |
Languages | |
French, Spanish [1] | |
Religion | |
Roman Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Italian, Argentines |
Uruguayans in France are people born in Uruguay who emigrated to France.
French culture has long had a strong influence in Uruguay, with its secondary education and University tailored to the French model. This is a reason why many Uruguayans have found France attractive as a country to pursue higher studies; many of them decided to stay.[ citation needed]
During the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973-1985), some expatriates spent their exile years in France.[ citation needed] There are as well a number of French-born people of Uruguayan descent.
Expatriate Uruguayans have their own institutions in France, [11] such as the Consultative Council in Paris. [12]